The Senegalese police announced on Tuesday the arrest of five people out of six suspected of killing Moroccan medical student Mazine Chakiri on the night of last Saturday in Dakar, according to Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (APS).

“We arrested five people who admitted to having attacked Mazine Chakiri, a student at Dakar’s Anta Diop University,” stated Warrant Officer Henry Boumy Ciss, the Head of the Public Relations Bureau of the National, at a press briefing.

Ciss noted that the sixth assailant in the gang fled while the Research Police and Intervention Group were arresting his accomplices at throughout Monday and Tuesday in Zone A in Dakar.

The gang had carried out a string of crimes in Dakar, according to Ciss, who pointed that “mastermind” of this gang already had a criminal record. He added that one of the assailants had escaped from Dakar’s Rebeuss prison at the end of 2015.

On Monday, the police announced that an investigation had been opened to determine the circumstances of this tragic crime.

Just four meters from his home, Chakri and his girlfriend were approached by six men on three motorcycles.

The assailants took Chakri’s cellphone and money and his girlfriend’s necklace and purse. 

His girlfriend, who was not injured, was questioned by police about the attack.

The deceased stabbed “in the thigh and was transferred to the hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.”

Chakiri was a fourth-year med student at the Cheikh Anta Diop University, and was soon expected to defend his PhD.

Source :Morocco World News